From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 23 11:30:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28067 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28059 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00518; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810231834.LAA00518@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Christopher R. Bowman" cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 05:51:34 EDT." <199810231102.GAA10474@quark.ChrisBowman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:34:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Since Jason claims to have tested this and failed, while I know that you > >have at least one well-behaved card, it seems to be a bit of a mixed > >bag. I wonder if the current crop of ATI cards still work? I've got a > >pair of Rage 3DII's here I could try it with. ... > I've got a Toshiba Equium 6200M (Intel Pr440fx based) with the ATI Rage 3D II+ > based card that it came with, and a Fire 1000 GL Pro (Permedia 2 based) card. > The machine works fine under NT (Not using both, just both in the machine) and > under FreeBSD which also is not using the second card. As long as the cards > are in the right slots the ATI card is used as the boot display which is ok > since I don't have a send monitor yet. Ok, so it looks like at least the Rage and Permedia BIOSsen aren't completely pathalogical. Thanks for the datapoint. > I assume that the Permedia 2 card will work fine but I have not as yet been > able to test it. I have a set of Permedia 2 data books, and I want to write a > driver to talk to it but I can't seem to get it to probe correctly. My pci > driver probe gets called for the on board USB connector but never gets called > for any other pci devices, so I haven't been able to fiddle with it. That may be because other drivers are soaking up the probe; does the Permedia card show up in a verbose probe at all? If so, does anyone claim it? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message